Maybe They Aren’t Coming Back: Embracing Your New Church

By: Cyclical SD February 24, 2023February 24, 2023 Churches, featured, ResourcesfeaturedLeave a Comment

This guest post from Rob Douglas, Director of Cyclical Full Circle, invites all leaders — whether established pastors or New Worshiping Community leaders — to wrestle with important questions for our post-Covid future. The Comeback I love a good comeback story. I’m the guy who almost never quits on his favorite sports team when they…

Cyclical Interviews: Nick Warnes

By: Cyclical SD April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 Churches, Discerners, featured, Resources, Starters, Story, VideofeaturedLeave a Comment

In this interview, Rev. Mike McClenahan — chair of the Cyclical San Diego committee and pastor of Solana Beach Presbyterian Church — interviews Nick Warnes, Executive Director of Cyclical INC about faithful innovation through the church. As Nick notes in this interview, we need to shift our perspective from location, location, location to leadership, leadership, leadership. …

Cyclical Interviews: Megan Cochran

By: Cyclical SD January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Churches, featured, Story, VideofeaturedLeave a Comment

Rev. Megan Cochran shares the powerful connections between leading her church as pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Point Loma and helping new churches and leaders as a member of the Cyclical SD committee. As Pastor Cochran notes, “Generosity begets generosity.” Please email us at connect@cyclicalsd.org if you’d like to be added to our monthly…

Cyclical Interviews: Michael Mudgett

By: Cyclical SD November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Churches, featured, Story, VideofeaturedLeave a Comment

Rev. Michael Mudgett, who is retiring as Executive Presbyter of the Presbytery of San Diego at the end of this year, has been a tireless champion of new churches. His vision, encouragement, and support have been vital both in launching Cyclical San Diego and helping us get to where we are today. In this month’s…

Cyclical Interviews: Fairlight Collins Lower

By: Cyclical SD October 8, 2020 Discerners, featured, Starters, Story, VideofeaturedLeave a Comment

From serving as moderator of the Presbytery of San Diego to connecting with people who would never have previously considered themselves part of a church, Rev. Fairlight Collins Lower shares about her discernment process around starting a new kind of worshiping community in this month’s video interview. Please drop us a line at connect@cyclicalsd.org if…

Cyclical Interviews: David Tran & Table San Diego

By: Cyclical SD September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 Churches, Discerners, featured, Starters, Story, VideofeaturedLeave a Comment

We have all faced numerous challenges throughout this year: pandemic, systemic racial injustice, wildfires and other natural disasters — and, on top of this, church leaders have been working faithfully to answer the question of what it means for the church to be an incarnational, embodied presence in a time of social distancing. We are…

Cyclical Online Conference • August 12 • Faithful Innovation: Beginning a Conversation for a Post-Covid Church

By: Cyclical SD July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 Churches, Discerners, featured, Resources, StartersfeaturedLeave a Comment

Virtually every church around the world has been impacted by COVID-19. Church leaders are having to make countless difficult decisions as their paradigms and priorities are rapidly changing. On August 12, Cyclical is gathering a group of ecclesial innovators from across our international network to help church leaders discern God’s activity and reimagine their role…

Cyclical SD Stories: Ebenezer Church

By: Cyclical SD February 20, 2019February 20, 2019 featured, Resources, Starters, Story, VideofeaturedLeave a Comment

Our friends at Ebenezer Church have just been featured in a new video and article by the Presbyterian Mission Agency! In the video below, the powerful impact of Ebenezer’s ministry can be seen in the stories of local partners such as Stephanie Brown (Principal of Montgomery Middle STEAM Magnet School) and Christopher Nayve (University of…

Discerners

The cycle begins with discerning a call to starting a new church. This holy process can be simultaneously exhilarating and overwhelming. We invite discerners into two requirements to work through all aspects of discerning a call to start a new church. First, we invite you to join a discerners group. We have found that the work…

Starters

The cycle continues through empowering starters to begin building healthy church communities. The second stage of our threefold cycle of starting new churches is dedicated to the starters. These practitioners have done the work of discernment and have begun the work of starting a new church. While the call of starting a new church…

Churches

The natural, historical cycle of God’s mission continues through churches in the third stage of our threefold cycle. Discerners become starters, and starters start churches. These churches, as time passes and as God blesses, move into moments of sustainability — in mission, administration, and the health of the leadership. It is on the journey into…

The Vision of Cyclical San Diego

By: Cyclical SD October 15, 2017October 17, 2017

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Our team identifies and supports discerning church starters, church starters and existing churches as they join the mission of God through the natural and historical lifecycle of starting new churches. This growing collective of leaders is an ecumenical community of innovators that share a common culture and set of practices created to thoughtfully start new churches across San Diego.

Be a Part of the Story of Cyclical

By: Cyclical SD February 19, 2019February 19, 2019

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Since September 2017, when Cyclical San Diego launched, we have seen the Cyclical network begin multiplying all around the country — and even several in Canada! The work we do here — helping Discerners discover their call to start a new church, coming alongside Starters for effective mission and ministry, and inviting established churches to…